Weinberg Modern Books (273 resultados)

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. Catalog accompanying an exhibition of sculptures by Bernard (Tony) Rosenthal held at the Catherine Viviano Gallery in New York City from January 6-February 1, 1958. 4to, pictorial wraps, 6 pages with 7 b/w plates. Brief introduction by Frederick S. Wight; checklist of 19 works at the end. Invitation card to meet the artist at the opening laid in. Some rubbing and soiling to extremities. Light bumping to fore edge. Adhesive residue to top corner of front wrapper.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. An essay on modern architecture by German architect Heinz Rasch, whose innovative, radical designs often meant they were only ever confined to pages of his sketchbook, and therefore rendered him considerably more obscure than many of his pre-war peers. It wasn t until 2014 that an exhibition at MARTa Herford on him and his brother shed a light on his admirable body of work. Translated by George and Joan Jelinek, and published by Alec; first edition. Tirant in 1967. Slight mean to spine. Mild soiling to dj, with small open tears to top edge.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. An "exhibition of recent sculpture" by British sculptor Kenneth Armitage, held at New York City's Paul Rosenberg from March 6 to March 31, 1962. Armitage's mature abstract style melded human form with animal and furniture forms and archaic Egyptian and Cycladic art. A scarce catalog of this artist's work. Minor bumping, light rubbing and soiling to extremities.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. Early collection of poems by American author, editor, and feminist Leslea Newman, a mentee of Alan Ginsburg's at Naropa. Published in 1980 by Back Door Press of Englewood, CO. Slim 8vo, printed wrappers, 47 pages. Mostly not about shoes, though we learn directly from the author "I have a green belt in Shuri Ryu Karate; I can turn a canoe on a dime; my favorite color is leopard print; I am (mildly) obsessed with shoes; and I never met a piece of dark chocolate I didn't like!" Mild rubbing and very minor bumping to wrappers; slight curve at outside of front wrapper. Contents clean and bright. Inscribed on the title page "For Keith/Whatever/I don't care/With love, Leslea"a cryptic but intriguing association .

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. Catalog of an exhibition held at Nathan Contemporary in 1990. Artists represented (one to a page) include Vito Acconci, Laurie Anderson, Robert Barry, Jennifer Bartlett, Douglas Huebler, Valerie Jaudon, Robert Kushner, Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt, Barry Le Va, Sol LeWitt, Kim MacConnel, Gordon Matta-Clark, Red Morton, Judy Pfaff, Alan Shields, Lawrence Weiner, and Elon Zimmerman. 4to, 28 page staple bound, printed wrappers, b/w illustrations. Introductory essay by Robert C. Morgan. Minor bumping and rubbing to extremities.

No Binding. Condición: Very Good. Fold-out invitation card to an exhibition titled "Richard Artschwager: New Work" held at New York's famed Gagosian Gallery from April 5-May 4, 2002. Per Gagosian's website "Richard Artschwager forged a unique path in art from the early 1950s through the early twenty-first century, making the visual comprehension of space and the everyday objects that occupy it strangely unfamiliar. His work has been variously described as Pop art, because of its derivation from utilitarian objects and incorporation of commercial and industrial materials; as Minimal art, because of its geometric forms and solid presence; and as conceptual art, because of its cool and cerebral detachment. But none of these classifications adequately define the aims of an artist who specialized in categorical confusion and worked to reveal the levels of deception involved in pictorial illusionism." The invitation card depicts "Chair (Miles)" an acrylic and photographs mounted on wood; like a pop-up book it opens out into a three-dimensional representation of the piece. Light bumping and rubbing to extremities.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. Small format book consisting of two short essays and a third performance text by art critic, artist, gallery director, and teacher Robert C. Morgan wherein the author weighs the meaning of Duchamp in a contemporary context, investigating the concept of androgyny (bride, bachelors) and attempting to demonstrate how contact with the banality of events in the everyday world can resonate with meaning. Published in 1990 by Editions Antoine Candau. Slim 8vo (5 x 8.5 ), wrappers, 50 pages, with text in English in one direction and French in the other. Inscribed on one half title page by the author to art collectors and gallerists Marc and Livia Straus. Light rubbing and soiling to extremities. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. Faithful reprint of the classic 1936 manifesto on Surrealism (though with a different dust jacket design), published in 1971 by Praeger Publishers. Edited (and with an introduction) by Herbert Read with contributions from Andre Breton, Hugh Sykes Davies, Paul Eluard, and Georges Hugnet. 4to (7.5" x 10"), hardcover with pictorial dust jacket, 251 pages with b/w illustrations, sewn binding. Minor bumping to wrappers with a small chip at the top and bottom of the front cover; a 1" non-displaced tear at the top front wrapper. Interior clean and bright.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. Catalog of works by Wassily Kandinsky published in 1972 by Berggruen in Paris. With introductory comments in French by Franz Marc, Apollinaire, Theodor Daubler, Paul Klee, Diego Rivera, Christian Zervos, Joan Miro, and Jean Arp. A section of black and white drawings is followed by a section of watercolors and a checklist of the offerings. Rectangular 8vo, pictorial wrappers, about 70 pages with color and b/w illustrations, printed on card stock. Minor rubbing to wrappers; contents pristine.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. Original four-page brochure for the Herman Miller Modular Seating and Storage Group, showcasing designs by George Nelson. Undated but circa 1959. Some rubbing and soiling with notable creasing to one corner.

Soft cover. Condición: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Softcover catalog of an exhibition held at the S. Bitter-Larkin Gallery in New York, April 5-May 12, 1990. "Not Painting is not about not painting; it is not about painters throwing in the brush and canvas, nor about the hasty decision that the arrival of one medium makes another obsolete.Not Painting is about a type of painting that has imported onto the defensive ground of painting reinforcements of style from less cornered, more vigorous contemporary modes, to save, revive, and restore painting." 8 pages, 8vo, in printed wrappers, with four full-color illustrations. NF.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition monograph on the design and construction of Botta's acclaimed postmodern circular house, built in Stabio, Switzerland in 1982. Published by L'Erba Voglio in 1982 with layout design by Max Huber. Square 8vo, stiff pictorial wrappers, 111 pages, fully illustrated with b/w photographs, plans, and drawings. Text in English and Italian, with contributions from Edoardo Sanguineti, Robert Trevisiol, Alberto Sartoris, Pierluigi Nicolin, Rob Krier, Reiser, and a note by Mario Botta. Signed and dated by Botta on the half title page. Light chipping and rubbing to extremities. Fine scratches to the front wrapper. Hinges slightly weakened. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. First mass paperback edition of Kerouac's classic Beat generation novel. Stated first printing, September 1958. Small 8vo, printed wrappers, 254 pages. Lean to spine. Some creasing to wrappers, with small closed tear to spine tail, and small open tear to top corner of rear wrappers, affecting 3 leaves.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition of Constantinos Doxiadis's Building Entopia, published in 1975 by W.W. Norton & Company. Doxiadis was a Greek architect, urban planner, and author who explored general ideas about future possible developments in urbanism. The book considers how we can actually build Entopa, a city that is both desirable and realistic. 8vo, 331 pls, hardcover with dust jacket. Text in English with b/w photographs, sketches, and maps. Previous owner's name written in ink on front endpaper. Binding sound. Bumping to spine head. Small ink stain to fly leaf. Mild rubbing to price-clipped dj, with some bumping to spine head and bottom edge.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. Issue number 42 of Push Pin Graphic, published in 1963, based on the 1960 New American Library publication of Nikolai Gogol's "The Diary of a Madman and other Stories" with illustrations by Seymour Chwast and Allen Vogel. Slim 4to, printed wrappers, 14 pages, illustrated. Pushpin Studios was founded in 1954 by Chwast, Milton Glaser, and Edward Sorel; Push Pin Monthly Graphic launched in 1957 and provided an outlet for the group's work which, in their own formulation "rejected tradition in favor of reinvigorated interpretations of historical styles (Victorian, art nouveau, art deco), provided a fresh counterpoint to both the numbing rigidity of modernism, and the rote sentimental realism of commercial illustration." Gentle bumping and some rubbing to extremities, with light damp staining to rear wrapper.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. The machination of the art market in the past two decades has anointed Jean Prouvé among the blue-chip status symbols; but the self-taught polymath behind the elegantly reductive designs was, in fact, endearingly down to earth -- speaking in his own voice in this delightful little book. Accounts by Prouvé compiled by Armelle Lavalou in 1981, three years before his death. Published by Édition du Linteau with the support of l'École d architecture de Paris-Belleville in 2001. Text in French. Minor chipping to extremities, with half inch closed tear to spine head.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition of Henry Steele Commager's magisterial study of American literary and intellectual history, tracking the evolution of liberalism, during the period 1880-1950. Published in 1950 by Yale University Press. 8vo, 476 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Commager (1902-1998) was a prolific cultural, intellectual, and constitutional historian who trained at the University of Chicago and taught at NYU and Columbia Universities, and at Amherst College. Along with peers such as Samuel Eliot Morison, Richard Hoftstadter, and Arthur Schlesinger Jr, Commager functioned as a public historian, pitching his works to a more general audience, and achieving a wide readership. Minor rubbing and bumping to dj, with light chipping to spine ends, and small damp stains.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, early printing (c. 1961) of this children's classic. Large 8vo (9.5" x 7"), original illustrated boards with pictorial dust jacket, 63 pages, illustrations by Dr. Seuss. Published by Random House/Beginner Books. Previous owner's name on endpapers. Gentle bumping and light rubbing to extremities. Light bumping and soiling to dj. Interior clean and bright.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. In this 1988 Guggenheim catalogue from the personal library of Dore Ashton, with lots of underlines, notes and post-its in the late art historian's usual fashion, a simple double-underscoring of the word wounded in Image 5 instantly contextualized Fontana's entire body of work. Though his particular artistic expression was an outlier in the Interwar canons of Classical revival or Neue Sachlichkeit, its stunning simplicity was nevertheless haunting and poignant. Text in Italian and English. Slight lean to spine. Rubbing and soiling to wrappers.

No Binding. Condición: Very Good. Pantone color sample kit in its original psychedelic-design mailing envelope with the pitch "Take Me! Take Me! I Am Your Pantone Color Sample Kit" Published by Pantone in 1969. The kit contains the following items: an accordion fold-out color chart; an accordion fold-out chart of color/tint overlays; two actual test samples of the color/tint overlays measuring 3.75" x 4.5"; a double-sided page advertising the Pantone Matching System; and a fold-out listing authorized dealers of the Pantone Matching System. The envelope measures 6." x 9.5". Some bumping and rubbing to the envelope; contents clean and bright.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. Collection of essays in English translation by French conceptual artist Daniel Buren (b. 1938). Published jointly in 1973 by New York's John Weber Gallery and London s Jack Wendell Gallery. 8vo, paper boards with orange printed glossy dust jacket. 64 pages with four pages of diagram illustrations in color, including a roll-folded 3-page leaf. Section two with pasted-down errata title, 'II. It Rains, It Snows, It Paints'. Minor bumping and chipping to extremities. Light rubbing and chipping to dj, with creasing to rear cover and along the spine.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition of Susan Peterson's account of renowned Mingei potter Shoji Hamada's daily life and workthe first book to offer such a perspective. Published in 1974 by Kodansha International Ltd. 8vo, hardcover with dust jacket, 239 pages with color and b/w photos. Hamada (1894-1978) worked for over 50 years in the pottery center of Mashiko; his tradition-based oeuvre influenced Western twentieth century studio ceramics, particularly through Bernard Leach and his St. Ives school. Peterson spent four months with Hamada in 1970; her observations of his work processes and life inform her account. Inscribed by the author on the title page to fellow potter WIlliemay Cheek, whose pencil signature is on the FFE. Light rubbing to extremities. Light bumping and rubbing to dj. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. First English edition of this monograph describing the process of building Le Corbusier's Unite d'habitation in Marseilles, the first of these high-rise concrete structures to be completed, in 1952, and one of Corbusier's most famous and influential buildings. Written by Le Corbusier and published by Harvill Press in 1953. Translated by Geoffrey Sainsbury from the French L'Unite d'habitation de Marseille. 4to, hardcover with dust jacket, pages. Black and white photos reveal the building and site both under construction and complete, and include interior shots of a few of the 337 apartments, complete with furniture by Charlotte Perriand. Some rippling to text block. Light staining to boards. Some bumping and chipping to rubbed dj, with open tears along top edge. From the collection of NYC architect and preservationist Sanford Malter, with his signature on the inside cover.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Expressionist play by British artist Wyndham Lewis, published by Desmond Harmsworth in 1932. First edition, tall 4to. Original cloth-backed boards with pictorial dust jacket. Light bumping and soiling to extremities. Moderate soiling and damp staining to edge-chipped dj. Three open tears along the length of the spine, with the lower half separating at rear joint.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. Yellow folders with 14 loose sheets laid in depicting the holograph poems of the 14 contributors, each poem accompanied by an illustration by Fielding Dawson. Contributors include Paul Blackburn, Bob Brown, Edward Dahlberg, Max Finstein, Allen Ginsberg, Paul Goodman, Denise Levertov, Walter Lowenfels, Edward Marshall, E.A.Navaretta, Joel Oppenheimer, Gilbert Sorrentino, Jonathan Williams, and Louis Zukofsky. The Jargon Society, an illustrious independent small press, was founded by Black Mountain College alum Jonathan Williams in 1951. Issues subsequent to number 1 were printed at Black Mountain. Along with original printed mailing envelope. Partial toning and light rubbing to wrappers with minor chipping to spine end. Leaves NF. Presentation envelope with top flap neatly cut away and preserved, partial tearing to remaining three edges.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. Ex-library from Philadelphia Museum College of Art Library. Publication year not identified, but p.o.'s inscription on flyleaf dated Feb 77' would indicate a publication date prior to that. Minor bowing to boards. Slight separation to front hinge at top. Glue burn to pastedowns and flyleaves. Light chipping and soiling to price-clipped dj, with library sticker remaining at spine.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. Catalog of an exhibition on the work of Moshe Safdie & Associates held at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Brookdale Center, from April 26 to June 6, 1982, co-sponsored by the New York Institute for the Humanities, the Samuel Rudin Professorship in the the Humanities of New York University, and Hebrew Union College. Small 4to, 24 unnumbered pages stapled together, printed stiff wraps. As stated in the introduction by Richard Sennett, this is the first in a series of exhibitions sponsored by the New York Institute for the Humanities exploring the relationship between architectural design and the social conditions of cities. Per Sennett, "No architect could more fittingly open this series. Moshe Safdie has been acclaimed internationally for his ability to fuse a bold visual language of his own with the peculiar economic, historical, and political circumstances of cities as diverse as Montreal, Mexico City, Jerusalem, and Boston, and of smaller communities in the Canadian Arctic, Senegal and Australia. His is uniquely an architecture of 'context'." Includes notes on about twenty projects: habitats, office towers, schools, a museum, a hotel/casino, condominiums, residences, urban design. Also includes descriptions of photographs present in the exhibition but not reproduced in the catalog. The only listing in the World Catalog, at Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati, does not mention a separate publication with the photos, so presumably this is the only printed reference to the exhibition. A scarce piece of ephemera associated with an important architect, urban planner, and educator of the late 1960's and beyond. Light rubbing and toning to extremities.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. Checklist of an exhibition of works by self-taught Mexican artist Felicano Bejar, held at the A.E. Hills Gallery at the City Museum and Art Gallery in Birmingham, England from February 23-March 28, 1967. Includes paintings and architectural elements along with the Magiscope sculptures the artist is best known for. Pictured is The Universe, made in 1964, Bejar's first Magiscope sculpture to incorporate lenses. 84 entries in the checklist in all, with 4 full-page b/w illustrations, plus a list of solo exhibitions and a short bio by art historian (and his companion) Martin Foley, Small 8vo, pictorial wrappers, 16 unnumbered pages. The front endpaper has Bejar's and Foley's names written in blue pen with a mailing and street address in Mexico City in what appears to be Bejar's handwriting. World catalog shows only three listings, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA, and the Smithsonian. Light rubbing, some bumping and chipping to extremities. Small abrasion to front cover. Scarce.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. Volume 8, number 2 of the magazine A-D: An Intimate Journal for Art Directors, Production Managers, and their Associates. Published by The Composing Room/PM Publishing Inc in December-January 1941-1942. Edited by Robert L. Leslie and Percy Seitlin, co-founders in 1934 of PM Magazine, forerunner of A/D. Slim 12 mo, 60 pages with photo-offset illustrated articles and ads handsomely printed on multiple paper stocks. Wrap-around cover design by E. McKnight Kauffer, whose work is featured in a 16-page article (Advertising Art Now) in the issue. Also included is a 16-page portfolio of work by photographers Arnold Newman and Ben Rose, an article about the art education of Nathaniel Pousette-Dart by Martha Cheney, author, along with her husband, of Art and the Machine and, at the rear, a bound-in copy of Design and Paper Number 7. Throughout its run from 1934-1942, PM/A-D was a preeminent and influential proponent of leading-edge American graphic design and production, incorporating high quality printing practices, championing modernist American graphic designers, and helping introduce avant-garde European designers to an American audience. Light bumping and chipping to extremities. Light soiling to front wrapper.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. Promotional booklet designed by internationally renowned graphic designer Richard Danne for Sanders Printing and Mead Paper and published in 1973 by Sanders Printing. According to a bio in Design Culture, Danne "worked in the whole field of graphic design from books to posters, from logos to major corporate identity programs, also serving as consultant to leading organizations such as AT&T, DuPont, FIT (Fashion Institute of Technology), Harvard Business School, NASA, Paramount, and Seagram. Most of all, Danne is best-known for being the design director behind the legendary NASA visual identity program of 1975, one of the most famous corporate identity projects ever made as well as one of the best. In particular, the NASA Graphic Standards Manual is still today one of the most beautiful, comprehensible, and enjoyable design manuals ever produced. In 1974 he was elected to the AGI (Alliance Graphique Internationale), and he also served as President of AGI US for eight yearsHe was judge in many competitions, lectured at conferences and university, and has been widely published in numerous magazines including Communication Arts, Idea, Industrial Design, and Print. For several years, he also taught at the SVA (School of Visual Arts) in New York City. Among other recognitions, he received three US Presidential Awards for Design Excellence, the AIGA Medal, the Fellow Award from AIGA San Francisco and was named a Graphis Master." Oblong 8vo (9" x 7.75"), 24 unnumbered pages, chiefly illustrations, printed wrappers. Light bumping and rubbing to extremities. Scarceonly one reference in the World Catalog.